Episode 2.0: Retrospective,
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A retrospective on GNOME 1.x, before we launch into the main narrative of GNOME 2; we’re going to look back at what GNOME 1 did right; what it did wrong; and what it meant in the larger context of the history of the project
And I’m home,
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In which I talk about life this past year, and changing jobs from Endless to the GNOME Foundation
Episode 1.5: End of the road,
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GNOME 1.4 gets released, and development work for GNOME 2 being in earnest; but things come crashing down once the Dot com bubble bursts, and GNOME loses an ally
Episode 1.4: Founding the Foundation,
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Exciting times for the GNOME project. The first GUADEC is held in Paris! The Foundation gets founded! Plus: CVS and Bugzilla!
Episode 1.3: Land of the bonobos,
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New companies form around GNOME! Ximian and Eazel work on making GNOME useful for corporate environments and casual users, and start shaping the technology stack with components for applications to use and reuse.
Episode 1.2: Desktop Wars,
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The desktop wars begin, and competitions heats up. We’re going to see the initial reaction to KDE’s licensing woes in the larger Linux ecosystem, and how that played into GNOME’s adoption. Plus: Red Hat enters the fray, and creates the Red Hat Advanced Development laboratories, and GNOME releases version 1.0
The History of GNOME,
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In which I announce my podcast on the history of the GNOME project